“It’s one of the things that in government you debate and what I find, every day of my working life that there are some arguments where you dig your heels in and you absolutely persist until you win and there are others where you basically compromise and we compromised on this." Mr Gove, responding to the Deputy Prime Minister's comments, said that he does not want sex education rules to become "time bound" and he wants to trust teachers to be free to teach as they wish.